Georgia K.F.CP.3.c

ELAKindergartenMechanics of Print Texts

The Standard

Understand that sentences begin with capital letters and end with punctuation to indicate the end of a sentence.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Foundations (F) · Concepts of Print

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find where a printed sentence starts and ends. They begin their own sentences with an uppercase letter and finish them with an ending mark.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can point to the first and last parts of a printed sentence. They can write a simple sentence with an uppercase first letter and a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
Common Misconceptions: Students may use a lowercase letter at the beginning or leave off the ending mark. Some capitalize every word or place a period after each word.
How to Assess It: Give students the words “the dog can run” and ask them to rewrite the sentence correctly. Check for a capital T and an ending mark.

Lesson moves

Give students word cards reading “my cat naps”; have them arrange the sentence, replace m with M, and add a punctuation card.
Write “we like recess” on the board and ask, “What tells a reader where the sentence starts and stops?”
Play Sentence Doctor: students circle a missing capital or ending mark on sentence strips, then repair each sentence with a marker.
Read classroom signs and lunch menus, asking students to point out complete sentences and name the clues that mark their boundaries.

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